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I a previous article I complained about the lack of a true 403 Forbidden error in ASP.NET and the clumsy way that authentication is handled by FormsAuthenticationModule.
The solution I came up with was a good first attempt but, in my opinion, came up short. Particularly when handling authentication of requests that ScriptModule touches. So I decided to take another swing at it, this time with some ammunition.
I took the list of HttpModules from the root Web.config and the ScriptModule that is added to ASP.NET 3.5 web apps and dove in with...
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HttpApplication Events, the HttpModules that handle them and in what order:
It is a generally held opinion that to depend upon the order of module/event execution is bad practice and produces brittle code. I agree somewhat with the spirit of the opinion but not at all with the explicit reason.
Events and Collections are not magic bags that arbitrarily insert handlers/items in some random order. I think, in a general sense, that to depend on event handler execution order is a 'bad idea' is valid. In a more specific context, in which the enviroment is known and...